. >> do you feel like the republicans have sort of been played pretty effectively by the obama administration? >> sure, they can't win -- >> because look at it. here's geithner again. and i think he slipped. but, i don't know if he wanted to let everyone know. but here's steve liesman and tim geithner. >> is the administration prepared to go over the fiscal cliff? >> oh, absolutely. again, there's no prospect to an agreement that doesn't involve those rates going up on the top 2% of the wealth yers americans. remember it's only 2 percent. remember all those americans, too, get a tax cut under that framework on the first $250,000 of their income. in some sense it's a tax cut for all americans. >> so i don't know whether -- i mean there wasn't much of a pause there. >> there was no pause. >> there was no pause there. and all along, i've thought it might be in the obama administration's best interest to go over, so that then they could -- but that makes me and people have called me cynical for how long now for months, saying that that's really cynical to say that that's what they've been plannin